Good Morning Sunday 6th October 2024

Good morning all from a dull but dry for the moment Black country.
Well I feel a lot more refreshed this morning I actually had 8hrs sleep, most unknown for me usually mange 6hrs with a small disturbance by DH trip to bathroom.
gMattie that's a lovely display I do admire your many talents.
May get my ironing done these last few nice days of sun have sent me on a washing frenzy.
Roast beef for dinner.
Enjoy your day everyone whatever your plans and may you all find some ☀️

Good morning from a dull Suffolk where there must have been rain in the night.

I managed to do quite a bit of tidying up in the garden yesterday and potted up a bag of tete a tete daffodils. I enjoyed being out in the sun after a few days indoors horsing my cold.

Today I will have no excuse not to tackle the ironing piles. I’ve decided to put all my summer holiday clothes away and accept that autumn has arrived. I collected a huge bag of conkers from the churchyard yesterday for DGS3. He will want to collect his own when they visit next weekend but they are falling fast and I don’t know how many will be left then.

Hope today is the best one possible for all.

Morning all 🙋‍♀️

I have a very sore arm thanks to the flu jab yesterday. I am having Covid booster in two weeks, I still am nervous about having them both together.

We are meeting friends for a meal and his afternoon at a trendy Bistro in our road. We have been friends for 44 years, through thick and thin.

Will catch up with your news over my cup of tea

Wishing you a peaceful Sunday

Think you are right, GG, because I still feel awful after having the two together on Friday, so another non-day for me. Not sure I shall even bother to get up but will need a hot drink so will have to make the effort. Good thing that “tomorrow is another day”!

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders where it's been raining but is fairly mild.
I have Quaker Meeting here this morning and either a classical concert or a Harvest service this afternoon.
Yesterday I sat nearly all day in a zoom church meeting. We prayed for peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.
Tonight there's a film at the community cinema. Daughters of the Dust.
I am now making soup for our lunch.

I hope those who are poorly, feel better soon.
Such a quandary Marydoll
Should you have the injection or not.
Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

Morning all from West Oxfordshire.

I’ve just woken up having gone to bed at 8.30 pm! I was exhausted and achy all day yesterday after my flu and Covid jabs on Friday. I feel okay now.

A quiet day today apart from cooking a shoulder of lamb to transform into a shepherd’s pie and I’ll make a raspberry crumble too.

I might watch another lecture on the history of railway stations which my daughter sent me a link too - yes, I know I’m a nerd!

Have a good day.

Morning Mick and everyone, it’s overcast in S Hants, I heard rain overnight.
Beautiful gMattie it stirred my childhood memories too.
My daughter has my car now until Monday, hers needs the brakes fixed, so I’m marooned!
MrJ has been called in as emergency ref for the under 12’s that Finley plays for later or they would forfeit the game, hope it stays dry.
I’ll get out for a walk and finish reading yesterday’s paper.
🦩🦩

“Oh what a(nother) beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day!” 🎵 🎶

Good morning everyone from Málaga. This weather is just incredible. 🌞 🌞 Hotter than any other Sept/Oct I can recall over the years anyway. Gardens this afternoon then definitely a cocktail for me on the marina before dinner a deux down there. We are running out of days!

Lovely display grandmattie. Quiet day today. Lovely meet-up with work friends know I’ll miss them when I retire hope to keep in touch but time will tell. Short wander round couple of shops planned essential bits needed. Then quiet afternoon planned. Love to all.

Good morning all from N Bucks where our Indian Summer seems to be over. Yesterday was truly beautiful though.
51 years ago today I was in Queen Mary’s hospital Roehampton trying without much success to give birth to our first baby.
14 hours and and emergency C section later our little boy was born. Paw told me how he had walked the 3 miles home to our flat in Richmond in the middle of the night (no car) “walking on air” .
Sadly our son only lived for another 24 days but if I close my eyes and shut out everything around, I can just think back to that wonderful first week of his life, happy being a mum, proud to be a family.
Half a century ago!
Much water has passed under many bridges since then.
With kind thoughts to all for a pleasant Sunday.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from a dry but cloudy South Yorkshire. It is set to rain at some point I think. Glsd your system seems to be settling Mick. I have a sore arm from my flu jab yesterday but nothing else as yet. DS was so late yesterday that he decided to forego the football and spent the afternoon with me. We went for a walk, somewhere where I’m usually too timid to take myself as it’s rather isolated. We talked the hind legs off several donkeys. For some reason he was surprised that I could walk so far these days. It was about my limit to be fair. Today I have an empty until teatime when DD and the menfolk are coming for a roast dinner, so I shall potter. I used to love harvest festival too, especially singing “Come ye faithful people, come”.
Have the best day you can folks

Maw💐

Morning from South Lanarkshire, lovely display grandMattie

Glad you’re feeling a bit better Mick

DD2 and family coming for lunch today, I normally manage to ‘be the visitor’ so this has been a bit of an effort #lazygran as FGT2 says! However starter and pudding prepared only main course to cook today, I’m making Bobotie which I love, I hope they do too.

Mass last night so no rush. The chap who cuts my grass is also a bit of a handyman and has done a nice job of painting my garden fence and I hope he calls today to collect his payment. He tends to ‘appear’ and is hard to pin down and I do want to clear my conscience!

Best wishes to everyone for a good day, hope all feeling under par feel a bit better soon.

Maw💐

Good morning Mick and all from Warwickshire after a lovely 90th birthday celebration yesterday. My late DHs cousin and bittersweet as they were born two days between each other and often had a joint celebration. Delicious food which broke the cycle of my two indifferent meals out recently.

In the evening, I went into Stratford on Avon with DS and shared a pizza (we couldn’t face too much food) in a very quirky restaurant called Big Hot Mamma. I loved it.

Today we drive back to the north after a lovely time (apart from the bad back which currently has a hot pad on it).

I’m sorry your activities are curtailed Ash but at least you are still part of the company, Hope you continue to
improve Mick, thoughts to RosiesMaw and all💕

Maw, 💐

Maw💐

Good Morning from Yorkshire.
We had rain in the early hours ,now just damp and very Autumnal looking.
Still trying to recover after covid so an easy day at home today before Mr r attempts to return to work tomorrow.

NannyJan it’s a Loungers below us at home! Wonderful for brunch with the family of a weekend. Ours is called Bevano - after Nye Bevan. A nod to the fact that the district general hospital up the road where I worked was visited by him in 1946 when he officially opened it as the first NHS hospital in the country.

Good morning everyone from Essex, where the sun has come out, after a grey but mild start to the day.
Had my flu jab yesterday morning, appointments at 3 minute intervals and 4 medics administering the vaccinations. I was in and out in 5 minutes! I have an achy arm, but that’s all. Hope the Covid jab will be similarly painless.
Did a little gardening in the afternoon. A machine load of washing was done and dried outside. I’ll do the ironing today.
One or both DDs may call in later, I’ll get one of them to read the gas & electricity meters for me as they’re in a very small low cupboard that I can’t see into.
I hope the day is kind to everyone. I’ll read everyone’s posts later.

Good morning everyone from a damp Northampton, more showers expected throughout the day, so it will be a day indoors for me. Will read the Sunday paper, do the puzzles, watch some tv.

Very pleasant doing my top-up shop yesterday in the lovely sunshine 🌞🌞. Stocked up with sausages, bacon and meat in M&S - the two DGDs are staying with me from Thursday to next Sunday, so I need plenty of stuff in. Have no idea what teenage girls eat for breakfast these days, so a message is needed to their mum.

Got back from the shops yesterday and was straight out into the garden with the lawn mower; was heavy going, as it had been about three weeks since its last cut. Checked inside the summerhouse and the floor was wet in each corner, but can't work out how the rain is getting in. Worrying.....

Thinking of you today Maw

Have a good Sunday everyone.

Oh Maw. 😢

RosiesMaw 💐

FriedGreenTomatoes2

NannyJan it’s a Loungers below us at home! Wonderful for brunch with the family of a weekend. Ours is called Bevano - after Nye Bevan. A nod to the fact that the district general hospital up the road where I worked was visited by him in 1946 when he officially opened it as the first NHS hospital in the country.

You’ve shattered my illusions FGT. - I imagined “Bevano” was some sort of Italian/Latin exhortation to share a bevvy!
“Bevano, chaps!” 🍻🍻

Maw